Weird name blacklisting
Jim points out the fact that most spam is sent with strange names as senders. A glance in the gmail spam box seems to bear this out: Gonzalo, Rowland, Dewayne, Homer(!), Mario, Robbie…
How would this be implemented in a spam filter? Obviously, it’s locale-dependent. If you live somewhere where these names are common, you would have to filter on Jim, Gustaf, and Matt instead.
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